Happy Together (1997) 
96min/ In Cantonese, Mandarin and Spanish with English Subtitles 
Director: Wong Kar Wai
DCP  

Wong Kar Wai’s dreamy and emotional portrait of queer love follows couple Lai and Ho who move from Hong Kong to Argentina in search of a better life. Being emotionally, culturally, and financially stranded in a foreign land puts pressure on their relationship, locking the couple in an intense emotional cycle of desire and jealousy, splitting up and reconciling. Happy Together comes only 6 years after the decriminalization of homosexuality in Hong Kong and at the cusp of Hong Kong’s handover, marking a period of rapid politization and rise in social movements. Through intensely saturated, intimate and dizzying cinematography, Happy Together brings us through the turbulent highs and lows of love’s extremes.  

This film event is part of OUT at the Movies, a cinema series to accompany the exhibition OUT of the Jewelry Box.  Inspired by the exhibition's focus on queer perspectives expressed in art jewelry, the series draws attention to the role of film in the construction of queer stories.